AMD Radeon RX 480 specifications and price leaked

Although I think he probably said that its a rumor in order not to be in problem with the NDA:

AMD Radeon RX 480 specifications leaked? From VideoCardz

A slide from AMD’s internal presentation has allegedly been leaked.

AMD Radeon RX 480, 5.5 TFLOPs, 8GB 256-bit

The specifications are rather poor in details, but we are told that the RX 480 (it appears this is in fact the official name for this card) has 5.5 TFLOPs single-precision computing power. Card would be equipped with 8GB GDDR5 memory across 256-bit interface.

The card will be powered through single 6-pin power connector, and judging from the chart it will compete with NVIDIA’s GeForce GTX 970 and GTX 980. The 6-pin power connector together with PCI-Express slot can provide 150W of power, which means Polaris 10 will require less than that.

AMD Radeon RX 480 would support DirectX12 with Async Compute capability. RX 480 will also feature DisplayPort 1.4, full HEVC and HDR monitor support.

The 5.5 TFLOPs computing power would indicate that RX 480 has 2304 Stream Processors clocked at 1200 MHz, but this part is pure speculation at this point.

AMD Radeon RX 480 to cost 199 USD

So I have just subscribed to Wall Street Journal to read an article about Polaris, before first card were even announced..

According to WSJ article, Polaris GPUs will cost no more than 199 USD. First systems equipped with Polaris GPUs will be available end of June:

Advanced Micro Devices Inc. is angling to lower the cost of virtual reality, targeting the field with a new line of graphics hardware priced at $199—half or less the cost of comparable products.

AMD said the first chips based on its new Polaris design are expected to arrive in graphics cards for personal computers at the end of June. The company aims to help push the starting cost of PCs that can deliver VR experiences as low as $799 from above $1,000.

Patrick Moorhead, an analyst with Moor Insights & Strategy said that $199 price comes as a surprise.

AMD Radeon RX cards are designed for VR

It was also confirmed that Polaris GPUs will be certified for VR use by HTC and Oculus, and the graphics will be capable of what 500 USD are currently used for.

Kelt Reeves, president of Falcon Northwest Computer Systems Inc said “It’s great for getting more people into VR,”.

Source: WSJ

ps: 1266MHz core clock as we already seen in a previous leak: From TechPowerUp:

:)

$199 is very good can't wait to see what their presentation later today will show

If this is all true, it's worth a steal! Nvidia would have to release a GTX 1060 to remain competative.

Disappointment fills my eyes.

TL:DR $200

Thing is, what if you don't give a flying fudge about VR?

If you don't care about VR, you still get a good graphics card for $200 that should be able to max most games at 1080p. Great bang for your buck.

Seems incredibly good value if the benchmarks turn out true.

Since we have more info:

AMD Radeon RX 480 Clock Speeds Revealed, Clocked Above 1.2 GHz

These benchmarks are real:

ps: These are the best benchmarks that can be found and they are probably overclocked. The normal ones should be around GTX970/GTX980 from what AMD have in the latest charts.

@Coseniath: Ye I've seen those, but I want to see actual game benchmarks on multiple games and not just dx12 games co-dev'd with amd

Well, I consider Firestrike a good benchmark to measure a GPU's performance. And its DX11. :P

But the problem is, these are the best results out there, so we don't really know what's RX480 performance is...

Results vary by 20% while 3DMark shows the same clock, so lower scores were either run with older, unsupported drivers, or higher scores simply show overclocked scores.

Chart shows the best possible scenario based on those results.

:/

Ye Firestrike is good if you need to narrow it down to just one

@klunt_bumskrint: I don't care about vr. the price is great I would have preffered if they just let the review sites like techpowerup review the card and released the benchmarks during or right after the presentation. now we have to wait.

anyway it should be good will get the 480X when it is released.

Not too bad for a 200$ card with 390X performance - I see a challenge for Nvidia with their upcoming 1060 for the mainstream gamer.

I guess the 390X and the 980Ti owners got something in common now XD sorry

Unless running both nVidia and AMD I might get a RX 480 card for folding purposes. Depends on price and points generated between this and the 1060. A 199 price tag sounds good.

So RX480 crossfire = $400 > GTX 1080 = 600

so slightly stronger than 1070 and more power draw + having to rely on multi gpu being supported

I have not seen a single UE4 game support SLI/CF.

Doom doesn't support SLI/CF properly either.

Just cause 3 doesn't work with SLI/CF.

Not to mention you get a lot of frame variance with dual gpu solutions.

You also play with an additional frame of input lag for each additional GPU with SLI or CF.

Nvidia Gameworks VR SLI is supposed to be incorporated into UE4 - according to this blog entry: https://blogs.nvidia.com/blog/2015/11/09/gameworks-vr-unreal-engine-4-ue4/

At least for VR with UE4, Nvidia may give you the upper hand if you do run SLI with a VR setup.

VR SLI provides increased performance for virtual reality apps where multiple GPUs can be assigned a specific eye to dramatically accelerate stereo rendering. With the GPU affinity API, VR SLI allows scaling for systems with more than 2 GPUs. (https://developer.nvidia.com/vrworks)

is rx480 is the only card AMD is launching in this year? Nothing high end?

Maybe later an RX480X with full Polaris (+10% performance maybe, similar to R9 380 to R9 380X), but nothing high end till October.

They said that they are going to release Vega earlier in October.

this price is so low its crazy... people can do 1080p max quality gaming on pc now... anybody can get into pc gaming at this point with prices this low.

With this... i wonder what their highest end card will cost... if its less than the 1080gtx with almost same performance, AMD will be back in it... and even if they ignore the high end video cards this gen, they will clean up until nvidia decides to release a 1060gtx to compete... which they should do quickly if they want to stop AMD. And knowing nvidia.. they will not sell the 1060 at 200 dollars, so AMD is going to be sitting easy.

ye the high end market really isn't selling that much, compare 970 share to 980/980ti/titan on steam hardware survey

Most people can not afford the high end cards. Also, you get more diminishing returns the higher end you go. So price/performance is not worth it for most people. Only the diehard enthusiasts can justify spending that much.

You completely forgot e-penis comparisons :P

Lol. It brings a whole new meaning to the phrase "How much can you bench?". Only this time, we are talking benchmarks and not bench presses. ;)

@BassMan: Because bench presses are overrated anyway. :P

I hope AMD releases these cards soon. I want to switch out my dedicated folding card... It would be nice to have something that produces more yet use less power. Would work better now in the summer when it is warm.

So base on speculation on whats on hand, does this land on >390x/ Fury Nano performance? Will there be a 480x? Would the upgrade even be worthwhile from a 290 reference, keep in my mind I had a miner'd card the initial batch that throttles when OC'd, so I may still get that boost whiling losing very little money after selling it.

As much as I like to get the gtx 1070. I much rather save that $180 towards my summer expenses :D! That and I only game at 1080p, rx480 just maybe enough to max at that resolution where as now I have to dial down a couple settings to maintain 60fps.

@Bikouchu35: Maybe not much increase in performance, but half the power draw for the same performance most likely.

The low price is a good move. I may get a 480 for my son's computer. His HDTV is 1080p, so he shouldn't need anything more for quite some time.

Also, I wonder how well they overclock?